Bolt-on proxy workflow to the existing media infrastructure
Media organizations are entertaining new combinations of software and hardware offerings promising quicker, better and more cost effective tools that fit into production workflows and on a larger scale, vast and complex digital media supply chains….
Read MoreTop broadcast executive, Ian McDonough, joins Forbidden Technologies plc as CEO
07 September 2017: Forbidden Technologies plc, a media SaaS business, announced the appointment of senior broadcast executive Ian McDonough as CEO. McDonough will be focused on driving commercial growth and continued development of their cloud video…
Read MoreHow will we be working in the Future?
*Extrapolating from where we are today and not including any major technological breakthroughs. 🙂 The landscape of the video industry has changed dramatically in the last ten years, new cameras, new formats, new markets and new…
Read MoreAppointment of CEO
Forbidden Technologies hires Ian McDonough as CEO Forbidden Technologies plc (AIM: FBT) is pleased to announce that Ian McDonough will join the Company as Chief Executive Officer on 1 September 2017. Ian will join the Company’s…
Read MoreAdding new market capabilities simply
In a dynamic market, continually reviewing and adjusting your commercial and development priorities is vital. This is our approach – and that of our progressive clients. Some of the key dynamics that are affecting the video…
Read MoreJavaScript Video Player
Forbidden anticipated the consumer web player experience – full frame rate video playback in a browser without installation or configuration. Our first public example, back in 2001, with 100,000 views within hours, noticeably impacted the UK…
Read MoreForbidden makes a strategic move to JavaScript
Forbidden Technologies plc (AIM: FBT) is pleased to announce the first JavaScript implementation of its core cloud Video Library “VidLib”, used as part of the Forscene platform. Forbidden’s first video player used Java to run on…
Read MoreForbidden Technologies plc agrees expanded deal with iconic sporting venue
Forbidden Technologies plc (AIM: FBT), is pleased to announce that it has today agreed an expanded deal with an iconic sports, music and entertainment venue in New York. To date the venue has successfully used Forbidden’s…
Read MoreEnabling vs Restrictive Standards
“You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year”, said Henry Ford. My brother, Alexander Streater, refined this for his school in Japan: “We are no longer in the Industrial Age….
Read MoreThe Power of Good Enough
The Better is the enemy of the Good. When I started in video in the 1980s, there was this thing called “broadcast quality”. With few broadcast television channels (and no YouTube or even World Wide Web),…
Read MoreSo psyched to part of the A+E Networks deployment of Blackbird.
Kevin Tobin - Senior Director of Production, A+E Networks